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Life Pig
ISBN: PB: 9780226404172, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
96 pp., 21.6x14 cm
From "Let Me Hear You": Outside is inside now The pyramid whose point we are is weightless and invisible and has become itself the night in which alone together on a high plateau we go on shouting out whatever name those winds keep blowing back into...
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£15,00
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Autobiography of a Goddess
ISBN: HB: 9789384757670, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2016
176 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Eighth century Tamil poet and founding saint Andal is believed to have been found as a baby underneath a holy basil plant in the temple garden of Srivilliputhur. As a young woman she fell deeply in love with Lord Vishnu, composing fervent poems and s...
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£16,00
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Dirt
ISBN: PB: 9781784102005, Carcanet, August 2016
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
The hotly anticipated new collection by an energetic young Scottish poet.
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£9,99
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784102364, Carcanet, August 2016
94 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
"Selected Poems" gathers writing from four decades of ?Nancy Cunard's life, some published here for the first time. The selection illuminates Cunard's transnational modernist project in full, from her early years as a coterie poet on the edges of Blo...
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£12,99
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Wi the Haill Voice 25 poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky translated into Scots by Edwin Morgan (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9781784104474, Carcanet, August 2016
100 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Forty-four years after their first publication, Edwin Morgan's versions of the great twentieth-century Russian futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky are back in print. Wi the haill voice collects twenty-five of Morgan's translations into Scots, accompanied by...
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£9,99
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Book of Fans
ISBN: HB: 9788024625188, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2016
180 pp., 28.4x22.8 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The National Gallery in Prague has in its collection a unique Japanese illustrated manuscript of ogi no soshi, a genre of waka poems illustrated in fan-shaped pictures, which blossomed fro...
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£34,00
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Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
ISBN: HB: 9780300213966, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 12 black&white illus.
More than sixty years after her death, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay continues to captivate new generations of readers. The twentieth-century American author was catapulted to fame after the publication of Renascence, her fi...
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£30,00
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What Must Happen
ISBN: PB: 9781784101961, Carcanet, July 2016
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
"What Must Happen" is Jeffrey Wainwright's most intimate and elegiac collection of poems to date, recalling lost parents, relations and friends. Shared childhood memories, and the history of hometown Stoke-on-Trent, connect Wainwright's personal them...
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£9,99
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Quennettes
ISBN: PB: 9781784102685, Carcanet, June 2016
132 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Three psychogeographical sequences exploring Queneau's Oulipian "quennets".
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£12,99
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784100520, Carcanet, June 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Abdellatif Laabi is the most important contemporary Moroccan poet, editor, novelist, translator and public intellectual. From 1972 to 1980 Laabi was imprisoned for his peaceful activism against the repressive regime of Hassan II; he was adopted as an...
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